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| Posted : | Wednesday, March 24th, 2004 01:31:47 PM |
| By : | win98problem22 |
| win 98se laptop installation | Configuration: |
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I got a new 3.1 gb hard drive for my IBM thinkpad 760ed that has a swappable floppy and cd-rom drive. Only one at a time can be used. I have the win98 startup disk on floppy. It loads fine and gives me all the options, but it never recognizes the cd-rom because it isn't in the laptop at the time I use the disk. When I switch to the cd-rom, I can't load windows 98se because I have it on a cd and the drive is not recognized. How can I get a driver in or something so that the cd-rom drive can be recognized when not in the laptop?
| Operating System : microsoft windows 98se
CPU/Processor : pentium 233 MHz
RAM : ? Actual:96 MB Max:128 MB
Hard Disk : sigma data, Space: 3.1 GB, RPM:5400
CD Drive : teac 8 X
Additional Comments : This is an ibm thinkpad 760ed
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Re: win 98se laptop installation by scorpio on March 27th, 2004 07:37:48 AM
well boot up from floppy without the CD Rom support.
switch to the RAM drive that the boot disk will make. now replace the floppy drive with CD drive. now type the command "MSCDEX /?" without quotes at the prompt. you will get help with the command and you can use this command to recognize your cd drive by giving appropriate parameters. tell here if u further need help with the parameters :) |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on May 06th, 2004 06:31:11 AM
I have this same problem. Are you saying that the floppy drive should be hot-swapped with the CD drive? Can this be done safely? and if so, what are the MSCDEX parameters that need to be used?
Dave K. |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on June 16th, 2004 10:20:25 AM
What you need to do is:
1.start your laptop with the boot-up floppy in it. Copy the contents to the hardrive.
2. Restart the laptop and go into the Bios and change the boot-up sequence from A: to c: to c: first. At the same time, hot-swap to the cd-rom.
3. Restart the laptop which should start the boot-up procedure and install the driver required for the cd-rom.
Let me know! |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on October 16th, 2004 08:26:48 AM
how can i install 98se on a think pad 760ed that has no floppy drive, hard drive was formatted? |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on October 25th, 2004 10:23:06 PM
how to i copy d to c |
ashton digital by Anonymous Ghost on November 13th, 2004 11:59:34 AM
need maximate 600 drives....anybody out there...company out of business...i think..... |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on December 29th, 2004 11:45:47 PM
How do you copy the files in the boot-up floppy onto the HDD? |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on May 14th, 2005 07:28:37 AM
I just installed Win 98SE on a Dell CPx.
But my display shows only in the middle and does not cover all.
What have I done wrong and how how can I change that the entire display shows? |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on July 16th, 2005 08:31:13 PM
I Have 760ed, no usb, no manual, how do i network it to my desktop? |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on July 29th, 2005 11:53:57 PM
It has been a while since I did this, but I can give you the flavour. I copied the Win98 CD to a Zip disk (parallel port model of IOmega Zip drive). I intalled the floppy disk drive into the ThinkPad, and booted from a DOS floppy that included Zip disk drivers. Then I copied the win98 setup cd files from the Zip drive to the hard disk. I then ran the win98 setup prog from the hard disk. Hope that helps! |
Re: win 98se laptop installation by Anonymous Ghost on September 01st, 2005 03:23:42 AM
You can't just copy the contents of a boot floppy to the hard drive. The paths point to the A drive,and you get a "bad command or file" error.
Also, if you boot to the floppy, the driver for the CD won't load, so if you then hot-swap the CD with the floppy, there won't be any driver for it in memory, so it still won't work.
I'm in the middle of doing this right now. I think there should be a utility somewhere that will take the contents of a boot floppy and parse it so that it will boot to the c: drive and load the cd drivers just like a floppy.
The switch boot sequence suggestion just failed for me completely. |
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